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Young men stand in front of a border fence and climb onto a truck. They wear civilian clothes and are brandishing machine g

Israel’s Perfect Failure

Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.

Uri Bar-Joseph 7 May 2025 · 19 min read

Christopher Rufo is a middle-aged white man. He is sitting on a stage, wearing a suit and tie.

Christopher Rufo’s Pyrrhic Victory

Instead of building the broadest possible coalition for his cause, Rufo is busy making enemies of potential allies.

Matt Johnson 5 May 2025 · 20 min read

All Men Behaving Badly

Just six months after it was released by Netflix, Anna Kendrick’s feminist film about a real serial killer already looks like an ideological relic.

Charlotte Allen 25 Apr 2025 · 23 min read

Master of Cinema

Éric Rohmer’s films demand patience and close attention, but they are immensely rewarding for those able to tolerate the absence of spectacle.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai 17 Apr 2025 · 24 min read

Composite image of Claire Coutinho and Bridget Phillipson (rewith a Freedom of Speech order in the background.

The Fight for Academic Freedom in the UK

How the battle for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was fought, won, and nearly lost again.

Abhishek Saha 6 Apr 2025 · 34 min read

A comic-book art style illustration of a woman clutching her face, eyes wide and mouth agape in terror.

The Fugitive Mind

My best friend had a psychotic break—our crisscrossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.

Joan Maltese 27 Mar 2025 · 51 min read

Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn, head and shoulders, both are white men in suits.

Red Spies and Lies

Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration.

Ronald Radosh 23 Mar 2025 · 23 min read

A soldier makes a hand gesture from the turret of a Humvee.

Lessons for Western Militaries from the Gaza War

Israel’s experience in Gaza provides a sobering preview of what high-intensity urban warfare can entail, and how modern militaries must evolve to achieve decisive and ethical victories in any future conflict.

Andrew Fox 16 Mar 2025 · 22 min read

Young woman in keffiyeh shouts into megaphone.

Hamas and Feminist Dissonance

Forced to choose between believing the claims of Israeli women and maintaining solidarity with Palestinians, Western academic feminists chose the latter.

Sonya Michel 11 Mar 2025 · 20 min read